The Year in Movies

Dec 15, 20216 min read

Best Discoveries of 2021: The 2000s

(Last year's list here) If you know me, you know that most of my movie-watching consists of films from 40, 50, 60 or more years ago. I...

Dec 14, 20214 min read

Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1990s

(Here's last year's look at the '80s and '90s.) I saw so few movies during the 1990s that practically everything is new to me, so you’ll...

Dec 13, 20214 min read

Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1980s

(Here's last year's look at the '80s and '90s.) Only in the past few years have I come to appreciate the 1980s. It wasn’t all bad hair...

Dec 11, 20215 min read

Best Discoveries of 2021: The 1960s

Last year’s list The 1960s tends to get the short shrift of my movie-watching time, stuck between film noir of the 1950s and the...

Dec 8, 20211 min read

2021 Discoveries in Movies and Books

I take great joy in discovering new-to-me movies and books and making lists about them. On this page you'll find several different...

Dec 31, 20209 min read

What I Watched in December 2020

Even though there's plenty of time to squeeze in another movie or two in 2020, I think this is going to do it. What a year... My December...

Dec 27, 20206 min read

My Year in Movies 2020

I initially thought looking back at my year in movies might be a depressing experience, and in a way, it was. For the first time in five...